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AD dors. APOLOGEI

OBSTACLES to IMPROVEMENT.

in Penal Jurisprudence

From the Profession

This may be the Title of a Chapter

The instances to be thrown together first without
previously announced, to avoid the
which is apt to digest give a to the reader, the
omitted to be printed out is the conclusion - as in
Harris's Works.

The very imperfections of the Law are become render'd objects of
an attachment which many motives & considerations
concur to render pertinacious.

The merit of a proficiency in Science of a given utility is in proportion
to the difficulties supposed: the every difficulty cut
off is therefore at least confusedly perceived to be a
portion of merit subtracted from the professor

It is to in the deriving a result favourable to the
party espoused from the voluminous [jarring] and inconsistent
assemblage of cases which do relate or may be
made appear to relate to the case in question
the seeking to a cast a light [favourable in like
manner] upon the obscur darkness of Antiquity that
consists what is called the learning of an Argument

It is not therefore to be wonder'd at if those who
have or hope to have obtain a reputation from the
learning of their arguments, should feel an
attachment (the motives of which perhaps lay concealed
from themselves) for the source from whence that reputation
is derived: and this without the immediate action of any
interested motives that is without any distinct & immediate prospect
of gain to arise from that the present perplexity, or less
from a projected simplicity.

Conscious and mindful of the toil and difficulty they
themselves experience from the perplexity of Laws the passages <add>knowledge of the
in their progress are many who to that point at which from where they begin to
by retrospect take a comprehensive & commanding view of the whole system, they
are not sorry that those obstacles stumbling blocks which give
them so much trouble should for a time as barriers
to the progress of their successors, that they may not
have the mortification to see to see themselves lose the

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